Here is a fun fact.........The Bible is the highest selling book in history, this is known to everyone, but the second one is, take a guess, ok times up, it is "Selected Quotes of Mao Zedong", you guys believe that

And ownership of that book being mandatory in China might have helped too. Ownership of the Bible on the other hand was highly discouraged by the strongest Christian faction for centuries, it was effectively (if not officially except under Sixtus V.) on the index librorum prohibitorum.
I think the last papal edict on that was in the 19th century (laymen may neither own the scriptures of the Old and New Testament nor read them...).
In Southern Germany it took until after WW2 to get finally(?) rid of that.

Now the discussion centers more on the "dirty" aspects of that book. In other words, should children be allowed to read a book with so much sex and violence in it?

I read the manifesto in detail. It starts well but later gets ever less persuasive by simply overstretching (or postulating) their "evidence" from history. Still much better than the rhethoric sleeping pills of most of their successors.

Swatopluk wrote:I read the manifesto in detail. It starts well but later gets ever less persuasive by simply overstretching (or postulating) their "evidence" from history. Still much better than the rhethoric sleeping pills of most of their successors.

It was something of an overkill, yes....

Duke

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